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According to WordNet, the noun "channel" has 8 sense(s).
106260121 (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms".
103006398 a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels".
105250659 a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs".
101113595 a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors; "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores".
109241247 a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel".
103006105 a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street".
